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Strange horticulture long meg location12/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Gardening seems ‘strange and dowdy’, she confesses, the word itself ‘fuddy-duddy’.Īs it turns out, she is actually an early adopter: soon, all the trendiest shops are stocking terrariums, prompting soulful reflections on her generation’s relationship with the natural world. A little like one of those invasive non-native species, this can overwhelm the narrative’s more intimate sections.Īnd for a book about rewilding, albeit on a personal level, there’s a striking lack of environmental awareness.Įventually, her heartache soothed by a new love interest, she finds that the unpredictability of gardening has tempered her need for control, while its leisurely rhythms instil patience.Īll the same, it takes her a while to own up to her new hobby. Even the pesky blackfly that colonise her nasturtiums seem like ‘charcoal smears in the fireplace’. She doesn’t actually have a garden but her windowsill fills with tomato and chilli seedlings, and out on her narrow balcony a mystery plant, rescued from her late grandpa’s greenhouse and coaxed back to life, rewards her with ‘a heartstopping display of apricot and raspberry and peach a Barratt Fruit Salad of a flower’.Īs a writer, Vincent has a taste for flamboyant, sincere poeticism. Over the coming year, she gardens her way back to happiness, rooting herself in life’s eternal cycle of growing, flowering, seeding.ĭespite a country childhood, Vincent is largely ‘plant-blind’, and the journey from drowning Lidl herbs to germinating her own sweet peas is tentative. ‘Those poppies felt like a tiny miracle, a reminder that nature keeps going regardless,’ she writes. It’s the sight of poppies in bloom that hauls her out of some serious moping. Despite a country childhood, Alice Vincent (above) is largely ‘plant-blind’, and the journey from drowning Lidl herbs to germinating her own sweet peas is tentative ![]()
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